novel progress report

[mckitterick]

After getting home from watching "What the *&%! Do We Know Anyway?" last night with adamaker, his roomie Jack, solan_t, verminiusrex, roya_spirit, and her boy J., I couldn't help but go home and work on Empire Ship. Mind-stimulation plus, well, a whole lotta caffeine does that to a guy. Progress:

. Listened to Morphine, Nick Cave, and Skinny Puppy to get into the proper mood.
. Went back through some old scenes with two characters and revised a bit per some thinking about them.
. Wrote an important, new scene.
. Word count up to 107,180 105,260 from last update of 99,840: a gain of about 2000 words. That's cool, especially considering this was a teaching day, an evening of socializing and seeing a movie, and I hadn't expected to write!
. Page count up to 350 from last update of 345.

Plus I got to talk to my girl last night. She's home in 8 days and counting!

Chris

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/kai_/]

Miller's Crossing is always worth repeated viewings. It's a Cohen brothers film, after all. Some night we should have a movie night all of our own.

No... we waltzed in at 7:30. Which is more or less the "typical" time for both of us, since I have a meeting that runs til 7, and he's usually not back from Topeka til 6:30 or so, and picks me up from my meeting.

But that's okay, we got a cozy booth all to ourselves. And it meant that you missed out on the German chocolates I brought to share. ;)

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Aw, man, missed chocolates. Well, actually, I've been trying to get all fit again and perhaps it was fate!

Chris

[http://users.livejournal.com/kai_/]

There will be more, sometime, dear man.
They're the little bite-sized pieces, which can work both as a benefit and hindrance to "fit"ness... benefit that you can just have a taste, and the hindrance that it's easy to eat more than one!